Word: heminway
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...BASEBALL. - The following men be examined by Dr. Sargent at the Heminway Gymnasium between two and four o'clock today: Scott, Field, Saunders Burden, Hill, Harris, Fox, Turner, Stevens, Prescott, Gray, Anderson, Lord, Abbott, Martin, Sullivan. It is very important that all take this examination today, for only those who qualify can take part in the class games...
...young man was allowed to pursue the difficult and perilous occupation of a record breaker, the proper authorities would ascertain whether he was constituted for such trying and critical work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from heart disease." We are informed by the highest authority that no such accident ever occurred; the unfortunate was a fanciful creation of the writer's imagination. The sophomore very much overestimates the importance which the college authorities attach to athletic contests...
...rule reads, "in public athletic contests, whether confined to students of the University or not." This is evidently pointed at those members of other athletic associations who are in college. It means that such men, while they are students, must be passed by the director of the Heminway Gymnasium before they can represent their other association in a public contest. It is a rule which we shall not attempt to criticize; but we suspect that, if our interpretation is correct, it will bring about many perplexing cases. Every student ought to know these rules; if they are just, then obey...